Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:26:31 +0200 From: David =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sieb=F6rger?= <drs@rucus.ru.ac.za> To: Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Repost: Drive jumpers - was: Boot Timeout? Message-ID: <20030916172631.GA1438@rucus.net> In-Reply-To: <003701c37c49$0827f8c0$04fea8c0@moe> References: <003701c37c49$0827f8c0$04fea8c0@moe>
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At 1:52 PM on Tuesday 16 September 2003, Charles Howse wrote:
> I currently have a HDD as the primary master, a CDROM as the secondary
> master and a HDD as the secondary slave on my FBSD box.
>
> FBSD detects them as ad0, acd0 and ad3, respectively.
>
> If I change the drive jumpers to make the HDD the secondary master and
> the CDROM the secondary slave, is it correct to assume that FBSD will
> detect them as ad1 and acd0?
ad2, rather. Assuming that you use the ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option,
ATA drives will be numbered like this:
ad0 primary master
ad1 primary slave
ad2 secondary master
ad3 secondary slave
...
> This configuration will break /etc/fstab, as well as anything else that
> references the HDD on the secondary IDE channel. Other than /etc/fstab
> and personal files, what should I edit to reflect the hardware changes?
When I've made those sorts of changes, I've only ever had to change
fstab and my scripts that run dump(8).
--
David Siebörger
drs@rucus.ru.ac.za
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